These reviews were written when the movie came out this past summer, but I think some of the points they raise will make excellent discussion questions when we meet on this book:
1. "New Film 'The Help' Whitewashes the Civil Rights Struggle into a Heartstring-tugging Hallmark Card . . . Thanks to The Help’s sugarcoating, the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance has been compelled to release a video discussing the truth of the country’s maids, nannies and chauffeurs. ”
2. "The Terrible, Awful Sweetness of The Help ...If Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help was an angel food cake study of racism and segregation in the 60’s South, the new movie adaptation is even fluffier. Like a dollop of whip cream skimmed off a multi-layered cake, the film only grazes the surface of the intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender and geohistory."
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